Shell shocked
Bernie Goldberg recently on O ‘Reilly said, ” Nothing is going to change in Black America for the better as long as you have 72.5% of all black babies born with no father around.” Writer Brian C. Thomas asks,” Is Bernie Goldberg right, why are our children killing our children, what did we do wrong?”
I asked Ald. Willie Cochran, a former police sergeant who represents the Southside’s 20th Ward about the effects of youth homicides after the gang related killing of 13-year-old Tyquan Tyler. “I was deeply troubled by the 13-year old boy’s friends with remorse” he said, “their exposure to this violence has become the norm. Young people have now seen so much death around the corner; at such an early age that they have developed a hardened attitude about violence.”
Is Chicago youths showing signs of PTSD? A case study has shown that it can be passed down to the next generation. Cambodia has the highest rate of violence in the world. Long beach staff writer Greg Mellen writes,” Much of Long Beach’s Cambodian population, escaped from the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime that left about 2 million dead between 1975 and 1979. Virtually all those survivors witnessed and suffered through unimaginable atrocities they carry invisible scars and struggle with symptoms of PTSD.” What is puzzling to me is that he mentions ‘invisible scars’ .Even the children are showing signs of borne trauma passed on from parents. These same PTSD symptoms apply to the children of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, killing one million people within a period of 3 months. Does PTSD also apply to Chicago youth?